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Convention 0.1. We always use homological index convention when talking about chain complexes and related objects such as differential granded algebra, even if we are using superscripts.

We often use the letter “d” (which is short for the word “discrete”) to indicate that we are working in the -categorical or classical context. For example, if is an ordinary ring, we use to mean the -category of discrete (or classical) modules over , and leave the notation to denote the -category of -module spectra. If are two discrete -modules, then we use to denote the classical tensor product, and leave the notation to denote the tensor product of and as -module spectra.

As another example, let be an ordinary ring, a finitely generated ideal, and a discrete -module. We can form the derived -completion of either in the category of discrete -modules (so the result is forced to be discrete) or in the -category of -module spectra (so the result is not necessarily discrete). We will refer to the first situation as discrete derived completion and the second situation as the nondiscrete derived completion.

1Preliminaries on Commutative Algebra

Proposition 1.1. Let be a map of -rings, let be a finitely generated ideal, let . Let be a -module spectrum. Then is -nilpotent (-local, -complete) if and only if it is -nilpotent (-local, -complete) when being regarded as an -module spectrum.

Proof. The nilpotent case is simple. Let’s consider the local case. Let be a set of generators of . Let in , and let in . Then an -module spectrum is -local if and only if . The same construction with replaced by yields , and we see that , so the former vanishes precisely when the latter vanishes.

Now we turn to the complete case. An -module spectrum is -complete if and only if for all and . Since , so the former vanishes precisely when the latter vanishes.

1.2. Let be an ordinary ring and let be a finitely ideal. Choose a finite set of generators of . Consider the sequence of -module spectra. We assume that this sequence is essentially zero. That is, for every , there exists a such that the map from the th element to the th element in the above sequence is zero. Let be an -module spectrum, then tensoring the above sequence with , the resulting sequence is again essentially zero, and consequently its limit is zero. Thus the -completion of is given by . If we assume is flat over (and in particular is discrete), then , which is discrete as one can compute, and equals the classical -completion of .

Proposition 1.3. Let be a -ring, a finitely generated ideal containing . Let be an ordinary -algebra that is a discrete derived -completion of an ordinary etale -algebra (this condition holds in particular when is -completely etale). Then admits a unique -structure compatible with the one on .

Proof. We use the characterization of -structures in terms of . Let be an etale -algebra, and a map of -algebras that exhibits as the discrete derived -completion of . We have a commutative diagram of short exact sequences of discrete -modules

where and are and regarded as discrete -modules through the ring maps and . Since , and have the same radical, thus the discrete derived -completion of is . Since the left and right vertical arrows in the above diagram are discrete derived -completion arrows, so is the middle one.

Consider the commutative diagram

where the left vertical arrow is etale. Since is derived -complete, if we let , then is -complete. Therefore and hence is a transfinite composition of square zero extensions in , the -category of animated rings, and consequently is right orthogonal to in , and there exists a unique map rendering the diagram

commutative. This map then extends to a unique map by the universal property of discrete derived completion, and we are done.

From the proof of Proposition 1.3 we obtain the following

Corollary 1.4. Let be a -ring, a finitely generated ideal containing . Let be the discrete derived -completion of , equipped with the -structure provided by Proposition 1.3. Then for every -ring over such that is derived -complete, is a bijection.

More generally, let be a -ring, a finitely generated ideal containing . Let be an ordinary etale -algebra, let be the discrete derived -completion of the -algebra , equipped with the -structure provided by Proposition 1.3. Let be a -ring over such that is derived -complete, let be an -algebra map. Then the -algebra map provided by the universal property of discrete derived completion is a map of -rings.

2Prisms

Definition 2.1. A -pair is a pair where is a -ring and is an ideal. A morphism between two -pairs and is a morphism of -rings such that .

A prism is a -pair satisfying the following conditions:

(i) is a Cartier divisor, which means that the quasicoherent sheaf on determined by the discrete -module is a line bundle.

(ii) is derived -complete as a module spectrum over itself.

(iii) .

A morphism of prisms is a morphism of the underlying -pairs.

A prism is bounded if has bounded -torsion.

Notation 2.2. Let be a prism. The ring is called the slice of .

Proposition 2.3 (Rigidity of Prisms). Let be a morphism of prisms. Then the natural map is an isomorphism of discrete -modules. In particular .

Proof. See [4] Lemma 5.4.2.

2.4. Let be a bounded prism. Then the ideal satisfies the hypothesis of 1.2, where we use the “set of generators” for some sufficiently large (here we use the cartier divisor directly in the Koszul complexes, instead of choosing a set of generators of ). Consequently we have the following

Proposition 2.5. Let be a bounded prism, let be a flat discrete -module. Let be the classical -completion of . Then the map exhibits as the -completion of (in ). In particular the -completion of is discrete, and is itself classically -complete.

Similar things hold if we replace by and by .

3The Prismatic Site

Construction 3.1. Let be a prism with slice . Let be an -algebra. The prismatic site of relative to , denoted , is defined to be the opposite category of the following category, where:

(i) An object consists of a morphism of prisms together with a morphism of -algebras . We will typically notate such an object as and depict such an object as a diagram below:

(ii) A morphism between two objects and will be a morphism of prisms compatible with the above diagram.

We will always equip with the indiscrete Grothendieck topology (and in particular every presheaf is a sheaf).

Proposition 3.2. Let be a bounded prism and a -completely smooth -algebra. Then there exists a prism over such that as -algebras.

Proof. Use Elkik’s algebraization theorem we choose a smooth -algebra and a map of -algerbas that exhibits as the nondiscrete derived -completion of . Use [8] tag 07M8 to choose a smooth -algebra such that as -algebras. Let be a map of -algebras that exhibits as the nondiscrete derived -completion of . By Proposition 2.5 is discrete and equal to the classical -completion of . Then is -local, thus is -local. Since and are invertible discrete modules over , tensoring with them does not affect -nilpotence/locality/completeness, so is -complete. So is the nondiscrete derived -completion of , and in particular is discrete and isomorphic to as -algebras.

Now using the fact that, for any ordinary ring , a -structure on is equivalent to a section of the projection , we can give a -structure compatible with the one of . Using [2] Lemma 2.17 we can give a -structure compatible with the one of . We claim that is a prism. The only nontriviality is to prove that is a Cartier divisor. Since is discrete, is injective, thus is a line bundle over . The prism is the prism we are looking for.

Construction 3.3 (Prismatic and Hodge-Tate Cohomology). Let be a prism with slice . Let be an -algebra. We define sheaves of rings and on as follows: and .

The (unique) functor (where is the category with one object and one morphism) is cocontinuous, thus induces a geometric morphism between -topoi (so we can preform pushforwards () and pullbacks () along , and is an adjoint pair). In particular we have a functor , where is the -category of -rings. Define -rings and .

Notice that the pullback functor is given by composition with , so (the constant sheaf on ) for every -ring . Using adjointness we see that we have a natural diagram of -rings:

The natural frobenius endormorphisms of prisms induces an endormorphism of the sheaf of rings , which is compatible with the frobenius endormorphism of . Applying (and using adjunction) we see that admits a natural endormorphism compatible with the frobenius endormorphism of .

Proposition 3.4. The diagram

is a pushout diagram in .

Proof. For any sheaf of -module spectra on and an -module spectrum , we have a natural map induced by adjunction, thus functorial in and . For or this map is easily checked to be an isomorphism, thus this map is an isomorphism for . Taking we get what we want (notice that ).

Proposition 3.5. is a -complete -module spectrum, and consequently is a -complete -module spectrum.

Proof. For and , , so we only need to prove that the latter is contractible. Recall that is a functor, thus is contractible since is -complete.

Lemma 3.6. Let be a prism. Then the forgetful functor from the category of prisms over to the category of -pairs over admits a left adjoint, which we call the prismatic envelope.

Proof. Let be a -pair over . We construct the prismatic envelope for . For every -ring and discrete -module , there exists a -ring over such that for every -ring over , there exists a bijection from to , functorial in . Let denote the subset consisting of elements such that for every element , lies in , then is a sub discrete -module (one can show that ). Consider the -ring together with the universal map . For every pair of elements and , consider the element , where . Let be the -ring obtained form by quotient out elements of the form (that is, is quotient out the minimum ideal stable under the operation and contains , as ordinary rings). Then the map is a map of -pairs. Moreover, if is a prism over , then the map is a bijection. Summarizing what we’ve done above, we see that we may assume .

Let , for every ordinal , let be the maximum -torsion free quotient of (taken in the context of -rings, so admits a natural -structure) (one can easily show that such a maximum -torsion free quotient indeed exists), and let be the discrete derived -completion of (so naturally admits a -structure). Let (colimit taken in the category of -rings) if is a nonzero limit ordinal. Since the category of derived -complete discrete -modules is stable under -filtered -colimits, where is a regular cardinal, the map is the prismatic envelope we are looking for.

Lemma 3.7. Let be a prism, let be an -algebra. Then the category admits finite nonempty products.

Proof. See the proof of [4] Lemma 11.6.4.

Proposition 3.8. Let be a prism, let be an -algebra. Then the category admits a weakly final object.

Proof. The proof of the corresponding proposition (Proposition 11.6.5) of [4] is wrong. We give a correct proof below.

Let be the polynomial -algebra on the set of free generators , so we have a surjection of -algebras, mapping a free generator to . Let be the free -ring over generated by the set , so we have a natural map . Let , then one can show that the prismatic envelope of gives a weakly final object.

4The Hodge-Tate Comparison Map

4.1 (Totalization). I don’t know how to prove the following facts, but I think they are correct:

Let be a cosimplicial abelian group,where is the category of abelian groups, then (I think) [3] Problem 4.23 shows that (limit taken in the derived -category ) is naturally equivalent to the complex associated to the cosimplicial abelian group whose differentials are given by alternating sums, as in [4] Definition 11.2.2.

The above discussion naturally extends to the case of cosimplicial chain complexes of abelian groups. More precisely, the limit functor is equivalent to the functor , where is the functor first taking a cosimplicial chain complex to the underlying double chain complex, and then to the totalization of this double chain complex. Moreover, I think this equivalence should be compatible with the projection from the limit of a cosimplicial chain complex to the level chain complex of the cosimplicial chain complex.

Now assume is a cosimplicial commutative ring, where is the category of ordinary commutative rings. I think the monoidal Dold-Kan correspondence equips the associated complex of abelian groups of the structure of an -ring (see this nLab page), and this should be the limit of in , the -category of -rings. In particular the commutative graded ring structure on the homotopy groups is given by the cup product (see this nLab page), that is, for , , both are cycles of the complex, we have , where is the inclusion of the first elements, and is the inclusion of the last elements.

Definition 4.2. Let be a morphism of ordinary rings. Define the de Rham complex to be the cdga (commutative differential graded algebra) over given by the chain complex , where , whose multiplication is given by the wedge product.

The de Rham complex of over will be denoted , or simply .

Lemma 4.3. Let be a morphism of ordinary rings. Let be a coconnective cdga over . Let be a map of -algebras such that for each element , satisfies . Then extends uniquely to a map of cdgas over .

Proof. See [4] Lemma 12.2.3.

Definition 4.4. Let be an ordinary ring and a finitely generated ideal. The subcategory of the category of chain complexes of discrete -modules spanned by the chain complexes of discrete -modules that are levelwise derived -complete is a reflective subcategory, which is compatible with the symmetric monoidal structure in the sense of [5] Definition 2.2.1.6. Consequently the full subcategory of the category of -cdgas spanned by the levelwise derived -complete -cdgas is a reflective subcategory, and the localization functor associated to this reflective subcategory is given by levelwise discrete derived -completion.

The derived -completion of the de Rham complex will be called the completed de Rham complex, denoted . It satisfies a similar universal property as that of ordinary de Rham complex.

Computation 4.5. Let be a bounded prism. Let be a -completely smooth -algebra, so there exists a smooth -algebra and a map of -algebras that exhibits as the nondiscrete derived -completion of . Let . In this case we have a canonical map . Since is flat over and is bounded, is the classical -completion of , thus is the classical -completion of since is finite projective over . Notice that becomes an isomorphism after modulo , where , so we have a map such that , so , where is a discrete -module. It is easy to check that , so the discrete derived -completion of vanishes. Therefore the discrete derived -completion of is equal to the classical -completion, which is also equal to . Summarizing what we’ve done so far, we see that (the completion is the levelwise classical -completion here), and in particular each term of it is finite projective over .

Construction 4.6. Let be a prism, let be an -algebra. For a discrete -module and , define the Breuil-Kisin twist .

Let be an -module spectrum. For , tensoring the fiber sequence in with we obtain a fiber sequence . Considering the connecting homomorphism we obtain a map of discrete -modules. These maps gives the ’s the structure of a chain complex of discrete -modules by [4] Lemma 12.3.2. Moreover, if can be promoted to an -ring over , then this chain complex has a natural structure of an -cdga (the Lebniz rule can be easily seen by observing that is a square zero extension of animated rings by the -module ).

In particular letting we get a cdga structure on .

Proposition 4.7. Let be the map induced by . For any element , squares to zero in .

A proof of the above proposition, implicitly using the unproved claim 4.1, is given in [4] Lemma 12.3.4 (there are some calculation errors that don’t matter essentially). For the readers feeling unsafe about this unproved claim, there is always a functorial approach, see the comment after Lemma 5.4 of [1] Lecture 5, at the top of page 8.

Using the universal property of completed de Rham complex, we get a map of cdgas (the completion is the -completion here). This map is called the Hodge-Tate comparison map.

Now we can formulate the Hodge-Tate comparison theorem:

Theorem 4.8 (Hodge-Tate Comparison Theorem). Let be a bounded prism. Let be a -completely smooth -algebra. Then the Hodge-Tate comparison map constructed above is an isomorphism of cdgas.

5Proof of the Hodge-Tate Comparison Theorem

Definition 5.1 (Divided Power Envelope). Let be an ordinary ring that is flat over (or equivalently is -torsion free for ). The divided power operations are the maps of sets defined by the formula .

Let be an ideal of . The divided power envelope of (R,J) is the subring of generated by and for all and . We also denote this ring by . If is a set of generators of the ideal , then is equal to the subring of generated by and for all and .

Aside 5.2 (Cosimplicial Objects). Let be an ordinary category. The category is called the category of cosimplicial objects of (here is the simplex category), and its elements are called cosimplicial objects of .

If admits finite products, then admits a canonical simplicial enrichment. In this case for a finite simplicial set and a cosimplicial object of , we define a new cosimplicial object of , denoted , by the formula , with the obvious transition maps. Now for two cosimplicial objects of we define a simplicial set by the formula . It is easy to check that this gives a simplicial enrichment. Moreover, if is another ordinary category which admits finite products, and is a functor preserving finite products, then the induced functor can be naturally promoted into a simplicially enriched functor.

Let be a category which admits finite products. The simplicial category has a natural homotopy category, which we denote by , obtained by taking at each -simplicial set of . Let be two cosimplicial objects of , and let be two morphisms of cosimplicial objects of . and are called homotopic if they define the same morphism in . is said to be a homotopy equivalence if it defines an equivalence in . Let be a category which admits finite products and let be a functor preserving finite products, then preserves homotopic morphisms and homotopy equivalences.

Remark 5.3. The notions of homotopic morphisms and homotopy equivalences between cosimplicial objects of a category can actually be defined even if the is not assumed to have finite products, and these notions are preserved by an arbitrary functor between categories, even if is not assumed to preserve finite products. See [8] tag 0FKJ for details.

Let be the -category of pairs where is an ordinary ring and is a discrete -module, so we a natural forgetful functor , where is the category of ordinary rings, mapping a pair to the ring . The induced functor can be naturally promoted to a simplicially enriched functor. Let be a cosimplicial ring, we let , which has a natural simplicial enrichement, and consequently a corresponding theory of homotopic morphisms and homotopy equivalences. Objects of will be called cosimplicial -modules. We have a natural tensor product operation in , which is formed by levelwise tensor product. Let be two homotopic morphisms of cosimplicial -modules, let be a cosimplicial -module, then it is easy to show that and are homotopic.

Let be an abelian category. For a cosimplicial object of we have the associated Moore complex (see [8] tag 019H for definitions), which is a chain complex concerntrated in nonpositive degrees, so in particular for . A morphism of cosimplicial objects of is called a weak equivalence if is a quasi-isomorphism. It is easy to check that the functor descends to a functor , where is the homotopy category of nonpositively graded chain complexes (see [8] tag 01A0). In particular, homotopy equivalences between cosimplicial objects of are weak equivalences.

Proposition 5.4 (Cech Nerves). Let be a morphism of a category which admits pushouts. Assume that there is a morphism such that . Consider the Cech nerve (or better, opposite Cech nerve, see [8] tag 016N for an explicit construction) of (this is a cosimplicial object in ). The morphism which in each degree is the self map of given by on each factor is homotopic to . In particular is homotopy equivalent to the constant cosimplicial object on .

Proof. See [8] tag 019Z.

Lemma 5.5 ([2] Lemma 5.4). Let be an ordinary commutative ring of characteristic . Let be a polynomial -algebra. Let be the (opposite) Cech nerve of , and let be its Frobenius twist (given by (levelwise) pushing out along the Frobenius endomorphism of ), so we have the relative Frobenius as a map of cosimplicial -algebras. Then for any cosimplicial discrete -module , the natural map (the tensor product here is given by levelwise tensor product) is a weak equivalence of cosimplicial discrete -modules.

Notation 5.6. Let be a -ring. Let be an ideal, we let be the minimum ideal of containing and stable under . Let be elements (where ). We use to denote the -ring .

Proposition 5.7. Let . Let be the free -ring generated by the free variables . Let be the ideal generated by . Then there is a canonical isomorphism of rings .

Proof. By definition, . By the proof of [4] Lemma 14.3.2, is a sub -ring of . Consider the map of -rings , mapping () to and ( ) to . One can show that this map is an isomorphism (see [1] Lecture 6, Lemma 2.1, [4] Corollary 14.3.3 and [2] Lemma 2.36).

Aside 5.8. See this mathoverflow page for discussions around the question of how to get an -ring from a cdga. The most direct reason for this is the fact that is lax symmetric monoidal, see [6] Theorem A.7. There is also another explanation for this construction, as in [7] Example 3.3.14:

Let be an ordinary commutative ring. Then the symmetric monoidal -category of completely filtered k-module spectra has a compatible -structure, called the Beilinson -structure, whose heart coincides with the -category of cochain complexes. The compatibility implies that the inclusion of the heart has a lax symmetric monoidal structure, thus a cdga gives rise to a filtered --algebra. Passing to the underlying -algebra, we get what we want.

Computation 5.9 (Crystalline-de Rham Comparison for Affine Spaces). Let . Let , , . Let be the divided power envelope of . Since is a subring of , one can naturally form a cdga . Then one can show that the map is a quasi-isomorphism of cdgas by reducing to the case where and then conclude using explicit calculation (notice that the cdgas we are considering are repeated tensor products of cdgas corresponding to the case ).

Using the same argument as above one can show that the map remains a quasi-isomorphism after levelwise modulo , hence also remains a quasi-isomorphism after levelwise classical -completion by derived Nakayama lemma ([8] tag 0G1U) since both and are -torsion free.

Computation 5.10 (Hodge-Tate Comparison Theorem for Affine Spaces). In the context of Construction 4.6, let , (where ). Let be the free -ring generated by the free variables , let be the classical -completion of . Then it is easy to see that and is a weakly final object of . We now give an explicit formula for the Cech nerve of in .

Let be the Cech nerve of formed in the category of -rings, so . One can check that is a free -ring over and in particular -torsion free. Therefore the underlying cosimplicial ring of the Cech nerve of in is (isomorphic to) , where is the classical -completion of .

One can show that there is a canonical isomorphism of rings , where the first ring is the pushout of along the Frobenius endomorphism of . We show that is a weak equivalence of cosimplicial rings (where the superscript means classical -completion). By virtue of Lemma 5.5, is a weak equivalence after quotient out . As and are levelwise -torsion free ( is -torsion free since it can be identified with the divided power envelope of a free -ring over , by Proposition 5.7. is -torsion free since it is a free -ring over ), we see that their mod reductions equal their derived mod reduction (i.e. derived tensoring with ), so the totalization (i.e. taking limit of the corresponding cosimplicial objects in the -category of -rings or other suitable -categories) of (regarded as a morphism in ) is a quasi-isomorphism after derived mod reduction. Since the totalizations of and are limits of derived -complete discrete modules, they are derived -complete when being regarded as objects of , so by derived Nakayama lemma ([8] tag 0G1U), the totalization of is an equivalence in , and consequently is a weak equivalence of cosimplicial rings.

Let be the cosimplicial ring whose level () ring is . Let be the cosimplicial ring whose level ring is (one should think as denoting the -fold operation of in ). Let be the ideal generated by . One easily sees by Proposition 5.7 that the cosimplicial ring is isomorphic to the cosimplicial ring . By [8] tag 023M the map of cosimplicial rings is a weak equivalence, so consequently is also a weak equivalence of cosimplicial rings (the cosimplicial ring is the diagonal of the bicosimplicial ring (that is, a functor ) , so their limits agree. Notice the limit of the latter bicosimplicial ring when regarded as a bicosimplicial discrete -module is the totalization of the underlying double chain complex). The same argument as above shows that is a weak equivalence, so using derived Nakayama lemma ([8] tag 0G1U) we see that is a weak equivalence, where here means levelwise classical -completion.

Consider the following double chain complex:

which we think of as the underlying double chain complex of a cosimplicial cdga, in which every morphism is a quasi-isomorphism of cdgas by virtue of Computation 5.9. Each row except the first row is quasi-isomorphic to zero by [4] Lemma 14.4.1, so by considering the spectral sequence associated to this double complex we see that the totalization of the underlying cosimplicial -ring of this cosimplicial cdga is equivalent to the totalization of the first row when being regarded as a cosimplicial ring. Similar things hold when we levelwise modulo , so similar things hold when we take levelwise classical -completion by derived Nakayama lemma since everything in the above double complex is -torsion free. Summarizing the above discussion we see that the totalization of the cosimplicial ring in the -category of -ring is equivalent to the underlying -ring of the cdga . Moreover, under the complicated chain of equivalences obtained by summarizing all the efforts we’ve made above, the map corresponds to the map , mapping each free variable () to the element . Using the Cartier isomorphism (see [4] Lemma 14.1.6) we see that the Hodge-Tate comparison theorem holds in this case.

Construction 5.11 (Functoriality of Prismatic Cohomology). Let be a prism. Let , be two ordinary -algebras and let be a map of -algebras. We have a natural restriction functor and consequently a sequence of pullback functors in which every functor admits a right adjoint by adjoint functor theorem. Using adjointness we see that we have a natural commutative diagram of -rings:

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